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Citizen complaint of the day: American Legion Highway has become a tire-eating monster
By adamg on Fri, 12/25/2020 - 11:17pm
An alarmed citizen filed a 311 complaint late Friday about conditions on American Legion Highway before Canterbury Street:
American legion highway has manholes eating up everyone's Tires. I went over one and was sure that was it for my driver side tire. I saw people pulled over with their flats a few hours ago. Please fix them ASAP. Now there's only one lane across from the high school going towards walk hill street from Blue Hill Ave.
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Dear citizens, perhaps also
Dear citizens, perhaps also consider slowing down your vehicles. The city of course should maintain the roads, but you should also not be going at such a speed that you are unable to safely maneuver.
These potholes will damage
These potholes will damage your car at any speed, and they're nearly impossible to see if there's any glare from oncoming headlights.
Isn't that a DCR road?
Isn't that a DCR road?
Even if it is
Canterbury Road connects American Legion Highway with Morton Street. I've seen some pretty almost historic crashes there.
It always amazes me when people get pulled out of a crumpled mass of metal and plastic alive. Be glad your trip was slowed by potholes.
I am not thankful for
I am not thankful for potholes. They are not the way to have a safe road.
Every brain cycle a driver spends on dodge-the-pothole is one less cycle for watching for pedestrians or other vehicles.
And a bicycle hitting a pothole could easily toss the rider over the handlebars, causing a broken bone or worse.
No
American Legion is a city-owned parkway with mostly a top speed of 30 mph and two slower school zones. It is not a highway.
What is your definition of
What is your definition of parkway vs highway, and why does American Legion qualify as the former?
Highway vs.parkway
Highways are state-owned roads with high speeds of up to 65 mph. Boston parkways are city-owned roads that are designated Greenbelt Protection Overlay Districts (Boston ordinance article 29). That ordinance lists American Legion, whicj is city-owned with mostly a top speed limit of 30 mph including two school zones.
So a parkway is a road with a
So a parkway is a road with a 30 mph limit, and people should go slowly because it's a parkway? That's rather circular logic.
No matter what kind of a road it is,
people shouldn't speed, anyhow. It's suicidal and homicidal to do so, anyway.
Where?
Silver lining
Maybe this keeps the Fast & Furious wannabes to a minimum?